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Re:Welcome Lemmy.world by zmmmmm on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @06:50PM (#36411819)
it'll be interesting to see if at that point, federation starts to become the way of scaling or not. If it was seamless, it wouldn't matter where you signed up and they could just host multiple lemmy instances on different servers. So far I have rather spotty experiences though with content sometimes making it to federated servers, sometimes not etc etc.
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Re:Welcome Lemmy.world by dragontamer on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @08:42PM (#36412839)
User scaling seems easy enough.

Its "community" (on Lemmy), or "magazine" (on kbin) scaling that seems hard.

But since each server has a local-copy of the community that its serving out, maybe the hardest part has already been solved by the Federation model. Each federated-instance is effectively a proxy / front-end for the users on that instance.

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I guess Mastodon is way larger than Lemmy though and they haven't had issues yet.

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